Deep sleep, as a trance, down over me flows.
Frederick Tennyson, 1890.
Cited by Hermogenes, about 170 A.D., as an example of simple style, and to show the pleasure given by description. The fragment describes the gardens of the nymphs, which Demetrius, about 150 A.D., says were sung by Sappho. Cf. Theocritus, Idyl vii. 135: 'High above our heads waved many a poplar, many an elm-tree, while close at hand the sacred water from the Nymph's own cave welled forth with murmurs musical' (A. Lang). And Ovid, Heroïd., xv. 157—
A spring there is whose silver waters show, etc.—
(cf. Pope's translation, infra, p. [194]) probably refers to it.
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